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A trio of Centennial Conference teams have qualified for the NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship for the first time ever as Johns Hopkins, Ursinus and Bryn Mawr are set to represent the conference in the national field of 28 teams. 

This marks the 12th time in conference history that multiple CC teams will compete in the national tournament and the first time that more than two earned bids.

Twenty-four teams will compete in twelve first-round games on campus sites this Wednesday. The twelve first-round winners, along with the four teams that received a first-round bye, will compete at four campus sites during second/third-round play, Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17. The winners of the four sites will advance to the semifinals and final, Friday and Sunday, November 22 and 24, at W&L Turf Stadium at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. 

Hopkins, which earned the CC's automatic bid with a 4-1 win over Ursinus in Saturday's championship, is making its sixth straight appearance and 12th overall. The Blue Jays are the three-time defending national runners-up, with each loss in the title game coming against Middlebury. 

Hopkins (17-3) will host Marywood (14-6), the Atlantic East confererence champion, on Wednesday at 5 p.m. The winner of the Hopkins-Marywood game will travel to Middlebury, Vt. and will face the winner of Cortland (17-1) and Ohio Wesleyan (17-4) on Saturday. 

Ursinus is in the national field for the 14th time as a CC member and the first time since 2021. The Bears (13-6) will host Rowan (14-7) on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Snell Alumnae Field. The winner of Ursinus/Rowan will travel to Massachusetts to face NESCAC champion Tufts in the second round of the tournament on Saturday. Wednesday's game will be a rematch of the season opener between the two teams as the Bears triumphed 6-2 back on August 31 in Collegeville. 

Bryn Mawr is making its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament for any sport. The 15th-ranked Owls (14-6) will host 21st-ranked SUNY Geneseo (18-2) on Wednesday at Shillingford Field. The winner of Wednesday's game will advance to the second round and compete against six-time defending national champion Middlebury (15-2) on Saturday.